How to Use binary system in a Sentence

binary system

noun

• Each star in the WR 140 binary system is far more massive than the sun.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2022
• The black hole lives in a binary system with an orange dwarf star.
  — Laura Yan, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2018
• In our neck of the galaxy, x-ray binary systems aren’t so common.
  — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 4 Apr. 2018
• But the odds are good that it was born into a binary system that harbors at least one big, hot star, according to the new study.
  — Mike Wall, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2018
• And like stars, they can be found by themselves or in binary systems with a companion.
  — Madeleine Aggeler, The Cut, 2 July 2018
• If the black hole happens to be in a binary system, where two stars revolve around each other, then the black hole begins to orbit the other star.
  — Joshua Hawkins, BGR, 19 July 2022
• The pitches climb higher and grow purer as the music takes the listener closer to the binary system.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Nov. 2023
• Every single aspect of who you are constantly being looked at and put in a box in a very binary system.
  — Zack Sharf, Variety, 8 June 2023
• For instance, there may only be support for the binary system of genders.
  — Adi Gaskell, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2022
• The process begins with a binary system, in which one of the two stars turns into a red giant, leaving just a white dwarf remnant core still in orbit with the other star in the system.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 20 Apr. 2022
• Like many, my conceptions of gender fit neatly into the binary system laid out for us since youth.
  — Varuna Srinivasan, Allure, 27 June 2023
• This is one of the brightest stars in the sky and is composed of at least four individual stars, one of which is a Wolf-Rayet star in a binary system with a blue supergiant star.
  — Robert Lea, Popular Mechanics, 13 Apr. 2023
• To cast a wider net, the team expanded their search to include binary systems with greater separation between the stars.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 28 Nov. 2023
• However, it has also been predicted that, in a binary system, the two black hole spins will be anti-aligned.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2022
• Confirming that there really is a planet in the X-ray binary system is likely to take time.
  — NBC News, 18 Feb. 2021
• Black holes that merge through the triple process should have orbits that are less circular, or more eccentric, than those of black holes that merge from an undisturbed binary system.
  — Quanta Magazine, 15 Aug. 2019
• The planet’s host binary system consists of a neutron star or black hole which is devouring a massive nearby star at a huge rate.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 24 Sep. 2020
• They were created in this system when the burst of X-rays from the binary system reflected off of dust clouds scattered across space between the V404 Cygni system and Earth.
  — Rebecca Cairns; Video By Milly Chan, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
• The star is a binary system (Alpha Centauri A and B), and both stars are sunlike, neither one unusual.
  — Ann Finkbeiner, Scientific American, 22 Dec. 2016
• The black hole exists in a binary system with a companion star -- and the black hole's gravity is pulling material away from the star and into a disk around itself.
  — Rebecca Cairns; Video By Milly Chan, CNN, 12 Aug. 2021
• Is there some new mechanism that kicks in at low masses that promotes Jupiter-class objects popping up in wide binary systems?
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2023
• In this binary system, astronomers realized, dust forms when the pair makes its closest approach.
  — Peter Tuthill, Scientific American, 15 Aug. 2023
• Two decades ago, a binary system involving a near-Earth asteroid was found to have a moon orbiting it, dubbed Didymos.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 30 June 2020
• That binary system may have formed in the accretion disk surrounding a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 2 Sep. 2020
• And there are a lot of these binary systems out there; previous research has suggested that more than half of all Milky Way stars have close stellar companions.
  — Mike Wall, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2018
• What can be done outside of this binary system, and these fights over individual projects, to address the housing crisis?
  — Curbed, 23 Nov. 2022
• Non-binary: Anything that falls outside of the binary system.
  — Megan Thielking, STAT, 7 Nov. 2019
• Such heavy binary systems are likely to be relatively rare in the universe, raising doubts in some minds about whether LIGO would have observed such an outlier so soon.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2016
• The cyclical nature of these events suggests maybe they're linked to a binary system, where one object circles another, but more research is needed.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 8 June 2020
• The black hole is sitting calmly in a binary system, not doing anything in particular.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 16 Apr. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Oct 2024